GM I woke up and some of the people who have been receiving significant amounts of Bitcoin donations and payments (which, let's be honest, are also basically donations) spent the hours I was asleep mocking the people who spend their Bitcoin as economically-illiterate fools. Ouch. I'm feeling some zap regret, ngl. 😔 I've seen enough. I will now be adding the ability to list more payment methods to the profiles.

We haven't really made any money, here. Almost everything has been from our own pockets or a very small number of large contributors on Geyser. If anything, we've spent more on supporting other peoples' efforts, than we've received for our own. There's just no financial incentive to produce content for Nostr, and building for Nostr doesn't pay unless you win the grant lottery. Everyone comes here, realizes that they will go broke slowly here, and then they leave again. It is, what it is. GN

Test of writing from my #mercury relay 🪽 kind 1 client.

What OS does your phone have? I think the library I'm using covers Android and iOS. I'll have to see.

Lesson: Don't become the people being displaced. Being homelandless sucks, unless you're a rich white person.

One of the weirdest things about doing a lot of volunteering and politicking and etc. is the fact that you quickly realize that the other people doing the same thing tend to also have more other responsibilities than the norm. Volunteers are more-likely to be in paid employment. Volunteers are more-likely to be married. Volunteers are more-likely to have household carework, for children or the disabled. Volunteers are more-likely to run their own business. Volunteers for one thing tend to be there, when you go to volunteer at another thing. If there are thousands of people in a community, you will see the same 200 people, everywhere there is work to be done. The people who are doing a lot, tend to do even more.

I've just been reminded of the fact that the majority of adults don't really work. I keep forgetting.

I always wonder what in the world they do all day. Maybe they have a little side-gig... but I also have a little side gig. Maybe they do some volunteering... but I also do some volunteering. Maybe they have a household and need to cook and stuff... but I also have a household and need to cook and stuff. Maybe they hang out at church a lot... but I also hang out at church a lot. Maybe they are politically active, but I am also politically active. Maybe they are out for long walks... but I also go out for long walks. Maybe they go to museums and art galleries, but I also go to museums and art galleries. WHAT DO THEY DO ALL DAY? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY DO.

GM It is time for #Africa to abandon all hopes of switching from wood fires and charcoal stoves to liquid natural gas. For that reason, we have launched an important movement. We ask Africans, across the continent, to save us all from global warming 🌍 with one simple step: #juststopcooking . https://www.juststopcooking.org/

It's sort of funny, how fast the public impression of #Catholics, in the West, has gone from namby-pamby fairies and feminists to hard-core, intimidating Big Men and Heartless Women, within about 25 years. Obviously, it's a big improvement. But it's funny.

LOL I can't get over this. This article totally gave me economic PTSD, fr.

This is Nostr, so your feed is now going to fill up with hysterical, hyperventilating, rantings about Israel not behaving much much much better than Palestinians do. But merely... much much better. And how this means that they are #LiterallyHitler. (Not that Palestinians think there's anything wrong with that.) 🤙🏻

LOL 31 years. That would mean that I would retire before I turn 50. Like, WTF? 😭🥴🤦🏻‍♀️

Okay. You got me to stop scrolling.

Ooh, look at this golden color scheme. 👀 I could do something like that. Very elegant.

The new #Wikistr fork comes in a modern dark-theme and a traditional #Biblestr light-theme. It has lots of new features, like comments, diff, and a bookstr macro that can be used to create special wikilinks for Bible passages, Quran excerpts, and etc. Alpha, but already pretty cool. Supports Nostrmarkup, Asciidoc, inline-code LaTeX, and code syntax-highlighting on all rendered content, including the comments. Will be increasingly integrated with https://jumble.imwald.eu/ and https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu,/ so that you can make your Bible quotes and other wikilinks anywhere you like. The bookstr macro has been added to #NKBIP01. GN https://wikistr.imwald.eu/nkbip-01*fd208ee8c8f283780a9552896e4823cc9dc6bfd442063889577106940fd927c

Racism is also a territorial conflict. Nobody cares about races of isolated people _someplace else_. I am not the World Police, sorry. My country has allies and trading partners, but no friends, and Germany has enough problems without borrowing them from others. People slaughter each other, every day, and none of us even notice and we don't have the energy to care, even if we did. Pray earnestly for world peace and move on. We all just paid so much attention to this because the TV said we should. Now, it's on to the next game, while our own borders are STILL being overrun. In 50 years there will probably be Jews and Muslims in Palestine, but there might be no Greeks in Greece. You want to know what living under occupation feels like? Just wait.

Where can I have a good salary? Here. Where can I and my daughter travel freely? Here. Where can I speak my mind openly? Here. Where can I practice my religion without persecution? Here. Where can I save in Bitcoin without taxation? Here. Where can I best utilize my education and credentials? Here. Where will I inherit property? Here. Where do I understand how the culture and legal/political system works and speak the native language? Here. Where are my ancestors buried and do my relatives live? Here. Other places are not this place.

You know why you are so interested in what happens to the Palestinians? It's because you are indifferent to what happens to the Greeks, but you still want to go through the motions of controlling some Magic Dirt. You do so by proxy. You have the same desires as everyone else, after all. That energy needs to go someplace. You can name yourself Team Palestine and cheer when they win a fight and boo when they lose a fight and wave your little 🇵🇸 freedom flag. It's like watching gladiators. Real danger, real death, and you're sitting in the nose-bleed seats and clapping and discussing how the game was. They turned bread and circuses into UBI and televised wars.

They get more in welfare payments than some people earn working full-time.

Amazing that there is no real crime, in Britain, so that the police is reduced to chasing down mean tweets.

Couldn't we bridge it?

*bots

You often post like a Russian bot, or a teenage boy, or something. 🤔